POPCORN by Ben Elton - OPENS May 12, 2018

Winner! Laurence Olivier Award Best New Comedy and Barclays Theatre Award for Best New Play

Bruce Delamitri is a Hollywood Film Maker who makes Tarantino style movies.

The Press is blaming Bruce for the the recent, copy-cat murder sprees that are taking place. Producer Karla isn’t happy. Neither is his soon to be ex wife Farrah who is worried that there’ll be a backlash and people will start suing and she’ll lose her settlement.

When Wayne and Scout (two wild, teenage lovers) break into Bruce’s house and interrupt his seduction of Playboy Centrefold Brooke, on the night of his Oscar win, moral debate about taking responsibility for one’s actions soon disintegrates with catastrophic results.

Many viewpoints are shown in this intelligent play.

"Funny, gripping and genuinely thought provoking."- Daily Telegraph

The cast is as follows

NICK BROWN plays Bruce Delamitri and ELIZABETH SWAN plays Brooke

GRACE CHISOLM plays Scout and FRANCIS JOHNSON plays Wayne

GINA SNEESBY plays Farrah Delamitri

and SHONA HARRIS plays Karla

SUZY SAMPSON plays Kirsten and JASMINE GRAY plays Velvet Delamitri

THE DIRECTOR - SUZY SAMPSON

Suzy trained at RADA and the London Academy for Performing Arts in the UK, the Stella Adler Academy in New York and TVI Studios in Los Angeles. She has 20 years’ experience and has directed theatre productions in London, Hong Kong and most recently the Bay of Plenty.

Her one woman show "Shakespeare’s Will" in which she portrayed Anne Hathaway, won the Hong Kong Arts Award for Best Production and has toured Hong Kong, Prague, Auckland, Wellington and Tauranga. She appeared in Company Theatre's production of Ladies' Day.